23 Jun
2023
23 Jun
'23
12:43 p.m.
I didn't get all of the replies, until a thread already developed (below)
with responses already embedded.
I don't think there actually is a diagnostics disk or manual, this PCS
Limited is ancient, before the corporate
structure of the company was established. There are other Turbo XT
motherboards that are almost right
but no PCs LIMITED-specific documentation is a match to the motherboard.
So, I just went forward and set up the PC working with what info I could
find. I am more experienced with XT
type IBM and clone systems than probably anything else, I think that PCs
LIMITED box I have is just a
generic clone with no frills, cheap XT clone. If it wasn't PCs Limited I'd
probably not spend so much time
on it.
Bill
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 11:47 PM Ken Seefried via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
BOOTP load of
a DOS from a Netware or 3Com server.
Could that be RPL? I have a WD800x ethernet card with netboot PROM sold
with a "Netware ready" or some such workstation that it took me a bit to
figure out was looking for an RPL boot server, not BOOTP/TFTP.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 9:11 PM Chris Zach via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Sitting here paging in old stuff from my brain.
I'll bet you have an
ArcNet card, and on the card it has a BIOS bootloader that was designed
to do a BOOTP load of a DOS from a Netware or 3Com server.
Pull the card and it will probably boot normally off the floppy.
CZ
On 6/14/2023 7:16 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
Guys...I just wanted to know if anyone has either
an original user/tech
guide or worked with the actual specific machine. Maybe there is a
password reset util disk image floating around specific to the original
PCs
> Limited system, or a backdoor password ...that's what I am after...the
> original stuff that came with it.
>
> I learned ctrl+alt+ - toggles Turbo/ regular mode, by trial and error.
>
> Bill
>